Center for Black Music Research

The Center for Black Music Research

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced a $25,000 grant to the CBMR for the FREE/PHASE project by artists Mendi and Keith Obadike. Read more

Online registration open through August 2 with reduced rates. On the CBMR's Active Net site, click the FTM13 banner to begin the registration process. (If you do not have a CBMR Active Net account, you will be prompted to create one.)

Our Mission

Founded at Columbia College Chicago in 1983, The Center for Black Music Research is the only organization of its kind. It exists to illuminate the significant role that black music plays in world culture by serving as a nexus for all who value black music, by promoting scholarly thought and knowledge about black music, and by providing a safe haven for the materials and information that document the black music experience across Africa and the diaspora.

Today in Black Music History

August 02:1864 Gary Powell Nash (clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer) born in Flint, Mich.
1911 Robert Allen "Bob" Cole (Broadway composer and lyricist) died in New York, N.Y.
1931 Philippa Duke Schuyler (pianist and composer) born in New York, N.Y.
1997 Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Afrobeat superstar) died in Lagos, Nigeria.